Abstract:

All the extracurricullar activities that allow the education and teaching given in school by means of a certain programme to continue outside school hours can be defined as homework. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of homework given in English class on students’ academic achievement and to understand the students’ ideas about homework given in English class with semi-structured interview form. In this respect, mixed pattern research method, which uses both quantitative and qualitative datas, was used in the study. The study was conducted with 32 students in the 6th grade who were studying at a school of the Ministry of National Education in Alanya, Antalya. The groups that were divided into two groups as experimental and control groups were pre-tested at the beginning of the study and while the group was being assigned, the course process was continued without the control group being assigned. At the end of the process, the results of the final test were in favor of the experimental group by comparison to the pre-test results and it was concluded that homework had a positive effect on academic achievement. In addition, the majority of the students participated in the research stated that homework was beneficial for them. As a result of the research, it was concluded that the basic problems faced by the students were not knowing the words correctly, not being able to pronounce correctly and not writing correctly. According to this, homework given to students in English class is generally related to reading and writing skills. As the assignments given to the students are not directed towards speaking and listening skills, there are no problems about these skills. 

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